--- title: Operation Desert Hydra — AI-Assisted CTI Pipeline:... description: A full CTI-to-detection pipeline focused on MuddyWater, an Iranian MOIS-linked threat actor targeting Israeli organizations. The workflow covers AI-assisted... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/operation-desert-hydra-ai-assisted-cti-pipeline-muddywater-to-kibana-3pmr8lg67 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Operation Desert Hydra — AI-Assisted CTI Pipeline: MuddyWater to Kibana | daily.dev og:description: A full CTI-to-detection pipeline focused on MuddyWater, an Iranian MOIS-linked threat actor targeting Israeli organizations. The workflow covers AI-assisted... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/operation-desert-hydra-ai-assisted-cti-pipeline-muddywater-to-kibana-3pmr8lg67 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3pmR8lG67.png og:image:alt: Operation Desert Hydra — AI-Assisted CTI Pipeline: MuddyWater to Kibana og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Operation Desert Hydra — AI-Assisted CTI Pipeline: MuddyWater to Kibana **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 70 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A full CTI-to-detection pipeline focused on MuddyWater, an Iranian MOIS-linked threat actor targeting Israeli organizations. The workflow covers AI-assisted source gathering (using Gemini and OpenAI in parallel), rigorous manual review of 71 candidate sources down to 8 promoted, extraction of 10 procedure records with evidence labels, OpenCTI knowledge graph construction, and 11 validated Kibana detections. Key procedures include spearphishing with RMM tool abuse, BugSleep's 43-minute scheduled task beacon, DLL side-loading via PowGoop, WMI discovery surveys, and LSASS credential dumping. The entire lab is deployable with a single command and all artifacts are publicly available on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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